Barna Regular

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Barna

Barna Stencil Regular

Barna Stencil

Barna Stencil Rough Regular

Barna Stencil Rough

Carmen Regular

Carmen

Carmen Display Regular

Carmen Display

Carmen Fiesta Regular

Carmen Fiesta

Carmen Fine Regular

Carmen Fine

Czeska Regular

Czeska

Groundbeat Regular

Groundbeat

Mecano Regular

Mecano

Salmantina Regular

Salmantina

Taull Regular

Taull

Tubqal Pro Regular

Tubqal Pro

Poblet Solid

Poblet

Rioja Tempranillo

Rioja

Pradell Regular

Pradell

Patufet Regular

Patufet

Patufet Mono Regular

Patufet Mono

SV Bebop Regular

SV Bebop

SV Bolero Regular

SV Bolero

SV Jazz Waves

SV Jazz

SV Mambo Waves

SV Mambo

SV Swing Regular

SV Swing

SV Twist Regular

SV Twist

Ravals Regular

Ravals

Mercè Regular

Mercè

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TYPEREPUBLIC, a Barcelona-based type foundry, was established by Andreu Balius in 2003. Dedicated to exclusive digital fonts, Typerepublic blends contemporary views with Spanish local history. In addition to retail typefaces, Typerepublic offers custom font designs tailored to customer needs and identity requirements for Latin and multi-script type families.

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Andreu Balius is a type designer based in Barcelona, Spain. He designs retail and custom typefaces at typerepublic.com and has received several Excellence in Type Design awards for his work. Andreu is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), TDC (Type Directors Club), and ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale).  He holds a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton, UK, and teaches typography and type design at EINA, University School of Design and Art in Barcelona. Andreu has delivered keynote lectures at national and international congresses and events, written articles for specialized books and magazines, and conducted workshops at various schools and universities.  In addition to his professional pursuits, he enjoys hiking and mountain biking.

Andreu Balius

Barna is a typeface intended for long-running reading text. Its simple and rational flavour makes it appropriate for technical literature content. Barna family includes a large stylistic set of variants, including condensed weights and a stencilled display style (Barna stencil) that provides an urban feeling to the family.The Barna family is conceived as a ‘workhorse typeface’, flexible and versatile in style and function, with a complete range of styles and glyphs –from small caps to old style figures– to fulfil all needs and text requirements.

The myth of the Spanish gypsy woman, created by Prosper Mérimée in his famous novel Carmen, served as the inspiration for this typeface. It was commissioned for a new edition of Mérimée’s romantic novel. In the public imagination, the character of Carmen embodies the exotic and captivating beauty of the gypsy woman, with olive skin and voluptuous sensuality. The Carmen typeface personifies that beauty, translating it into letterforms: a high-contrast Neoclassical typeface with sweet, rounded terminals and light strokes as fine as golden threads. Its italics, slightly inclined and gently rounded, are soft and almost fragile, approaching the text like a dance performance. The Carmen typeface expresses contrast, passion, and sophisticated elegance within the text, making your words evoke the scent of orange blossoms.

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